That's a great response that I will need to study. I agree that there may be some design issues here. This is not "intuitive" as it should be.
There was another good suggestion: use interpolation as in:
z=Interpolation[data[[All,2::]],InterpolationOrder->1];
ParametricPlot3D[{u,u,z[u]},{u,0,1}]
which seems intuitive although I will need to study it.
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